22 June, AtoZForex One of the fattest cryptocurrency exchange platforms, GDAX, has bot experiencing downtime issues. GDAX reporting the last disruption appeared on the 19th June. This has caused a number of problems with ETH deposits and withdrawals.

GDAX trading toneelpodium reports high latency

GDAX is performing thousands of cryptocurrency transactions vanaf day. Ter spite of the significant popularity of the verhoging, it wasgoed criticized for a few outages during the current year. The GDAX Vice Voorzitter, Adam White, has mentioned te the beginning of June that they project a number of downtimes for slick transactions.

Some of the GDAX transactions have bot immobilized where few ETH deposits and withdrawals are still partially halted. On the 21st of June, GDAX trading podium reports high latency:

Investigating – Wij’re presently experiencing high latency that may cause the webstek to stream more leisurely than usual. Wij’re investigating. Thanks for your patience.

Major Bitcoin Exchanges report cyberattacks

However, such outages show up spil a regular thing for some of the major exchanges. Just recently, a number of Major Bitcoin Exchanges reported cyberattacks.

The largest US dollar based Bitcoin exchange, Bitfinex, has informed the public that its podium appeared under distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS). This is a very popular type of attack, normally aiming to paralyze a system with a flood of information.

The other Bitcoin exchange, BTC-e exchange, has reported the similar attack on its systems. Reportedly, the webstek of this Bitcoin exchange wasgoed temporarily down.

How can Bitcoin exchanges prevent the outages?

Industry experts suggest monitoring the network microburst and the buffering of the systems. This will provide an idea of potential bandwidth te the system.

Like this, trading platforms can minimize the period of the downtimes. This will also help them to be ready for such issues beforehand.

On GDAX Ethereum price collapsed overheen 94%

Meantime, the price of Ether, the coin of Ethereum, crashed to a low of $0.Ten from about $319 te a matter of seconds on the GDAX this Wednesday. Spil on GDAX Ethereum price collapsed, the podium is blaming the unexpected druppel on a “multimillion dollar market sell” order.

The VP of GDAX has stated that the Ethereum plunge took place at around 12:30 PM PT on Wednesday. Mr. White said that the multimillion dollar market sell order caused a number of orders being packed from $317.81 to $224. 48. Then, the price continued to druppel.

At the same ogenblik, another 800 zekering orders and margin funding liquidations dragged Ethereum value down to Ten cents. Merienda on GDAX Ethereum price collapsed, some users were suspecting that the druppel ter Ethereum value is a result of certain illegal activities. Mr. White mentioned ter his blog:

Our initial investigations showcase no indication of wrongdoing or account takeovers. Wij understand this event can be frustrating for our customers. Our matching engine operated spil intended across this event and trading with advanced features like margin always carries inherent risk.”

Spil of now, Ethereum price stands at around $320 on general exchanges.